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Sunday, November 06, 2011

DOE Officials Mark Total Of 47 Schools For Closure

By: NY1 NewsThe list of struggling city public schools facing possible closure has more than doubled to 47.The Department of Education has just added 28 new names to the list, including 15 additional high schools, six additional middle schools and seven charter schools.

Most of the new additions are in the Bronx.

That number comes on top of the 20 struggling elementary and middle schools that were slated for closure in September.

Last school year, DOE officials also considered closing 47 schools. Of those schools, one in the Bronx and four in Brooklyn are once again on the chopping block this year.

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Norm Scott worked in the NYC school system from 1967 to 2002, spending 30 of those years teaching elementary school in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn (District 14). He retired in July 2002. He has been active in education reform and in the UFT, often as a critic of union policy, since 1970, working with a variety of groups. In 1996 he began publishing Education Notes, a newsletter for teachers attending the UFT Delegate Assembly. In 2002, he expanded the paper into a 16-page tabloid, printing up to 25,000 copies distributed to teacher mailboxes through Ed Notes supporters. Education Notes started publishing a blog in Aug. 2006. Norm also writes the School Scope education column for The Wave, the Rockaway Beach community newspaper.